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Inheritance: Mrs. Ignisha Rajathi

The document discusses inheritance in object-oriented programming. Inheritance allows a new derived class to inherit traits from a base class, enabling code reuse. There are different types of inheritance including single inheritance where a derived class has one base class, multiple inheritance with two or more base classes, and hierarchical and multilevel inheritance involving derived classes inheriting from other derived classes.

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Inheritance: Mrs. Ignisha Rajathi

The document discusses inheritance in object-oriented programming. Inheritance allows a new derived class to inherit traits from a base class, enabling code reuse. There are different types of inheritance including single inheritance where a derived class has one base class, multiple inheritance with two or more base classes, and hierarchical and multilevel inheritance involving derived classes inheriting from other derived classes.

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Inheritance

Mrs. Ignisha Rajathi


Inheritance
• Reusability is yet another important feature of
OOP.
• It is always nice if we could reuse something
that already exists than trying create the same
all over again.
– C++ strongly supports the concept of reusability.
Inheritance …
• The mechanism of deriving a new class from
an old one is called inheritance (or derivation).
– Old class – Base class
– New class – Derived class or sub class
• Derived class inherits some or all the traits from the
base class.
Inheritance …
• Various forms of Inheritance:
• Single Inheritance
• Multiple Inheritance
• Hierarchical Inheritance
• Multilevel Inheritance
• Hybrid Inheritance
Inheritance …
• Single Inheritance (Derived class with only one Base class )

A Base Class

B Derived class
Inheritance …
• Multiple Inheritance Two Base Classes

A B

C Derived class

• One or more base classes


Inheritance …
• Hierarchical Inheritance
– [traits of one class may be inherited by more than one class (derived class) ]
A

B C D
Inheritance …
• Multilevel Inheritance (deriving a class from already derived
class)
A

C
Inheritance …
• Hybrid Inheritance

B C

D
Inheritance …

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